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Book

Good dress : poems

Call Number

  • 811 R7245 (CEN, POW)

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Edition

First US edition.

Publication Information

Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2024.

Physical Description

86 pages ; 23 cm

Summary

"Following the tradition of Nikky Finney, Krista Franklin, and Morgan Parker, Brittany Rogers's Good Dress documents the beauty and audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, community, class, luxury, materialism, and matrilineage. A nontraditional coming of age, this collection witnesses a speaker coming into her own autonomy and selfhood as a young adult, reflecting on formative experiences. With care and incandescent energy, the poems engage with memory, time, interiority, and community. They also nudge tenderly toward curiosity: What does it mean to belong to a person, to a city? Can intimacy and romance be found outside the heteronormative confines of partnership? And in what ways can the pursuit of pleasure be an anchor that returns us to ourselves?"--

Contents

  • Money
  • This time, postpartum
  • Intake form
  • Upbringing
  • Elegy
  • Detroit Public Library, Chandler Park Branch: erotic fiction section
  • Hunting hours
  • Pauling blood
  • Self-portrait as Detroit Public Library, Franklin Branch
  • Doin' too much
  • Detroit Public Library, Franklin Branch: explanation of debt
  • I lost my virginity after making a pact "to become women" with my cousins
  • On our third anniversary
  • My father tried
  • Progress notes
  • Self-portrait as Pauling's Market on Lycaste and Vernor, circa 1980s
  • Detroit pastoral
  • 328 Macomb
  • Select the most appropriate answer
  • Flo Milli shit
  • Ice cam, Little Caesars Arena, January 2022
  • Good ground
  • Confidentiality and privacy policy
  • The year they left everyone to die
  • Flo Milli shit
  • Ode to my mama and "The purple dress,” كىكْف ١٩٩٢-١٩٩٣
  • "زكُ ًٰوم قفُٰ" ىٱ ف ٱهَُ فقuُٰ ٱٰفْىِِهَ
  • ؤمٰىُْٰ ذuقىٌك جىقفْ”ْ، ثفَ ِِآفْكَو: vُملْuم َُٰىكم
  • آملٱىلم آفِٰىٱٰ
  • ح” فٍفٍ'ٱ فٍفٍ ىٌvمٱ فمٌَُ، ٰوuُهو مِوْفٱِ ىٰ ىٱ ٰىمٍ: --آفٌكuًُٰ، ءuهuٱٰ ٢٠٠٣، ؤمٰىُْٰ
  • د'ٌ لuلم فٰ ٰوم هفٱ ٱٰفٰى َُٰوى ًَوم نىٌْٰى'َ
  • ءuقفلم ن ُْٰوم كوفهَىهَ ٱمفٱ َُ-- ؤمٰىُْٰ ذuقىٌك جىقفْ”ْ، آuْٰ َُبىٱٰىُْكف ٌأمٌٌُكٰى َُ-- إمٌه” ن ُْمْمٍقٍمىْهَ
  • آممَلىكٰى،َُ ةٱفْم ٌآفِٰىٱٰ أوuكْو
  • ش ُٰملَممَْٱٱ
  • بمَُ”-ل ُىٌٱٰ، wمم ً٣٤ نُ مِْهفَكَ”
  • ء ٌٌٰوم مْفٱٱَُ ة'vم ٱفىل ”مٱ
  • ج”كفٱٰم سٰمْمٰ فلَ ضم َُْْبىهوwف” مْٱلَُِ ٰ ُٰوم أو”ْٱمٌ ْفٌَِٰ قمىهَ قuىٌٰ
  • ةكم كف،ٍ جىٰٰمٌ أفمٱفٱْ ءمْفَ، ئمقuْف”ْ ٢٠٢٣
  • سمنٌ-ُِْٰفْىٰ فٱ ث&ا ؤمىٌ نُن طفمْْ َفلَ أمََُ ْ-- شمْفٰمٍَٰ فٌِ َ-- ئ ٌُحىىٌٌ ٱوىٰ
  • شوwُْقفك ًىَهوٰ، حىلwف” سفًٰىهَ زى ًَ-- ة ف ٍٰ ُُمِْٰٰ” ن ُْٰوىٱ.

Subjects

Genres

Poetry.